More films of Zahir Raihan will be shown throughout February and March. Mohammad Masud Chowdhury were present on the occasion along with the students. Shahidul Alam, Head of the Department, Professor Zakir Hossain Raju, the Course Faculty and Mr. Faculties of the department including Mr. This iconic figure is being remembered through film sessions, seminar and discussion about his life and extraordinary works during February and March.Īs a part of this, one of Zahir Raihan’s famous film ‘Kokhono Aseni’ (1961, 140 min) is shown on February 2, 2017, Thursday.
Apart from popularizing Bangla feature films, he took them to a height of international standard. A creative prodigy and an unsung hero of Bangladesh, Zahir Raihan, through his excellent works and unique style, created a revolution in our filmmaking. Evidences have been found that he was killed among many others when some armed Bihari collaborators and disguised soldiers of Pakistan Army fired on them when they went to Mirpur, a distant place from the main city of Dhaka that was still being held by Pakistani/Bihari collaborators.Students of the Course titled “Film and Television in Bangladesh” of Media and Communication Department, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) are holding some events to pay tribute to the late legendary filmmaker Zahir Raihan. Zahir Raihan is employed with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, registered with Shared Services Canada. He disappeared on Janutrying to locate his brother, the famous writer Shahidullah Kaiser, who was captured and killed by the Pakistan army and/or local collaborators during the last days of the war. Though he had his financial problem going on that time, he gave all his money to the Freedom Fighters trust that he got from the show. His film was highly acclaimed by Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha and Ritwik Ghatak. During the war of liberation Raihan went to Kolkata where his film "Jibon Theke Neya" were shown. In 1971 he joined in the Liberation War of Bangladesh and created documentary films on this great event. He also took part in the "Gano Obhyuthyan" in 1969. The effect of language movement was so high on him that he made his legendary film "Jibon Theke Neya" based on it. He was an active worker of the Language Movement of 1952 and was present at the historical meeting of Amtala on February 21, 1952. In 1964, he made Pakistan's first colour movie, Sangam, and completed his first CinemaScope movie, Bahana, the following year. In 1960 he arrived as a director with his film Kokhono Asheni.
The filmmaker Ehtesham also took him for his movie A Desh Tomar Amar, for which he wrote the title song.
He also assisted Salahuddin in the film Je Nodi Morupothay. He worked as an assistant in the film Jago Huya Sabera in 1957.
His first collection of short stories, titled Suryagrahan, was published in 1955. He also worked as the editor of Probaho in 1956. Along with literature works Raihan started working as a journalist when he joined Juger Alo in 1950.Later he also worked in newspapers, namely Khapchhara, Jantrik, and Cinema. Zahir Raihan received his post graduate degree in Bengali Literature. He had been married twice, to Sumita Devi in 1961 and Shuchonda in 1968, both of whom were film actresses. He obtained Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Bengali from Dhaka University. After the Partition of Bengal in 1947, he, along with his parents, returned to his village from Calcutta. Zahir Raihan was born on 19 August 1935, as Mohammad Zahirullah, in the village Majupur, now in Feni District, Bangladesh.